Alissa Quart

I'm not one of these anti-TV people.

— Alissa Quart

I was just a bright, driven kid.

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Kids don't come cheap.

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I'm just a reporter.

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I grew up in New York City and in London.

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Low-cost gear can make restless people like myself feel marginally happier.

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If everybody is a Facebook friend, what is an actual friend?

— Alissa Quart

We in America believe in starting over - and over and over.

— Alissa Quart

Precariousness is not just a working-class thing.

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In a lot of ways, I had a wonderful childhood.

— Alissa Quart

An IPO-mad technology boom made 'selling out' itself into an honorific.

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My father made me who I am; he was incredibly intellectually generous.

— Alissa Quart

Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty.

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The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of…

— Alissa Quart

Approximating authenticity online is not such a tall order. In fact, it may be the very least we can do.

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Like politics, all status is ultimately local - people compare themselves to those they live near.

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When I was 13, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground made more sense to me than anything else.

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I used to teach at the Columbia journalism school, and I would tell my students that every book has to have a…

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Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and…

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Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.

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In an economy where women now make up half the work force, we're going to have to address the treatment of pregnant…

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Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess,…

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Going in and out of a proverbial 'poor door' - a separate entrance for income-restricted residents of mixed-income housing - of your…

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On the surface, public schools can seem egalitarian, especially with their websites' emphasis on words such as 'connection,' 'community,' and 'choice.' Yet…

— Alissa Quart

Money and one of its embodiments, social class, are both riveting and mysterious to children. And if we don't challenge today's stigma…

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Actors and writers and adjuncts are always looking for their next job: they find common cause with the female Uber drivers on…

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Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative;…

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Social networks matter greatly, and our class calibrations are often around what college one attended, leading to gruesome institutional divisions between those…

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As the world of independent feature filmmaking became increasingly commercialized by the mid-1990s, there was also a parallel, much more positive development:…

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When I was doing my research for 'Branded,' I'd meet groups of teenagers and preteenagers or tweens, and they would laugh at…

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Parenting makes us better in so many regards.

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Making a movie, under any circumstances, is a highly stressful occupation.

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To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying.

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For the rich and powerful, pregnancy might not be an obstacle - it might even help one's career. But for the rest…

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When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society…

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Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.

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There are actually very few deeply 'gifted' kids with transcendent cognitive or artistic abilities.

— Alissa Quart

Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.

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If we don't at least try to make the future more equitable, most of us will left with simply scraps.

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Neurohumanities offers a way to tap the popular enthusiasm for science and, in part, gin up more funding for humanities.

— Alissa Quart